Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:46:09AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:52:02PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > > Replace all the occurences of "testing" in the file with "stable" and > > uncomment the lines with "unstable" in. > > Perhaps you meant to "comment" them, rather

Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-12 Thread Curtis Spencer
I want to set up DNS on my system so I can have my domain names point to it. What is a good way to do this? Is there an easy way? I am running the current unstable distribution. Is there something I can apt-get easily? Cheers, Curtis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Nautilus barfs

2003-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
OK, after browsing between one and three levels deep from wherever I start in the filesystem or from Start Here, Nautilus 2.0.8 shows nothing, but accurately states the number of objects. Then when you refresh or try to do anything other than close the window, Nautilus freaks out and dies. Any kn

Re: Enabling Serial ports

2003-01-12 Thread Jacob S .
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:15:30 -0800 (PST) "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob S. said: > > Yikes... I didn't realize how inexperienced I was with using my > > serial ports in Linux until I started trying to play with a little > > Intrinsyc CerfCube here. > > > > Kernel 2.4.18 with the serial

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:05:47AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:32:12PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > one of the things that bother me in my set-up is browser. mozilla is > > what i use currently and i have to wait for ages before it load

Re: what can be done with broken packages

2003-01-12 Thread Travis Crump
Roland Wegmann wrote: Hi I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken packages on my debian powerpc box (testing). cpp-2.95, perl, perl-base, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.10 What does a broken package mean? And how can I made a package 'unbroken'? Kind regards, Roland [EMAIL PR

Re: Enabling Serial ports

2003-01-12 Thread nate
Jacob S. said: > Yikes... I didn't realize how inexperienced I was with using my serial > ports in Linux until I started trying to play with a little Intrinsyc > CerfCube here. > > Kernel 2.4.18 with the serial module compiled into the kernel. > dmesg | less shows mention of /dev/ttyS02 and /dev/tt

anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s. that is not dependant on a window manager (KDE/gnome/WM)? Basically I need a "ticker" like the one in Evolution's Summary page but don't want to have to run Evolution to have it. Thank you, Shawn P.S. - to sylpheed-claws develope

Re: rt8193too problems with 2.4.20-k7?

2003-01-12 Thread John Foster
Jeremy Turner wrote: I just installed the 2.4.20-k7 kernel image on my Athlon XP, modprobed the 8193too module so I can get my on-board NIC to work. I get a DHCP lease and I can ping stuff. But using SSH and apt-get returns a bunch of connection refused errors from ftp, http, and ssh. I revert

anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s. that is not dependant on a window manager (KDE/gnome/WM)? Basically I need a "ticker" like the one in Evolution's Summary page but don't want to have to run Evolution to have it. Thank you, Shawn P.S. - to sylpheed-claws develope

anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-12 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s. that is not dependant on a window manager (KDE/gnome/WM)? Basically I need a "ticker" like the one in Evolution's Summary page but don't want to have to run Evolution to have it. Thank you, Shawn P.S. - to sylpheed-claws develope

Re: clam anti-virus

2003-01-12 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Once upon a time Tom Allison wrote @ Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:08:05 -0500 > IIRC there is an anti-virus tool that comes as a debian package called "clam". > > Or something like that. > > Problem is I can't seem to find the package name. > clamav - --

clam anti-virus

2003-01-12 Thread Tom Allison
IIRC there is an anti-virus tool that comes as a debian package called "clam". Or something like that. Problem is I can't seem to find the package name. I'm looking for a basic (and free) anti-virus tool that I can use with amavis-new. -- You know, the difference between this company and the Ti

Enabling Serial ports

2003-01-12 Thread Jacob S .
Yikes... I didn't realize how inexperienced I was with using my serial ports in Linux until I started trying to play with a little Intrinsyc CerfCube here. Kernel 2.4.18 with the serial module compiled into the kernel. dmesg | less shows mention of /dev/ttyS02 and /dev/ttyS03 on irq 4 and 3, res

Re: Where is Cint?

2003-01-12 Thread Paul E Condon
Cint is written and supported by Masaharu Goto, and is used a lot by a major software project of CERN, the international laboratory for high energy particle physics in Switzerland. It supports both C and C++, including such nifty features as throwing and catching exceptions. I'm really looking

Re: upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Dale" == Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> I installed mozilla-xft and have good looking anti aliased fonts Dale> in galeon but no truetype fonts show up in the font preferences Dale> and the font stays the same regardless of the font I choose. Dale> Mozilla however, now finds tru

Re: Wacom graphics tablet: make error for wacom.o

2003-01-12 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I was under the impression that one needed to use a more updated driver > - namely one from the site that I've been using to guide me through this > process ... > > http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net > > It seems that you're saying that the stock modu

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-12 Thread Travis Crump
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:57:04 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: If you want a particular version not to be installed, then give it a Pin lower than 100 and it will never be installed if there is another installable version in your sources. This is what the manual says, but

Re: Where is Cint?

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
hiya, one of the many results of $ apt-cache search c interpreter is clif - C language interpreter is that what you're looking for? sean On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:06:41PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > A few weeks ago I "discovered" Cint, which is an interpreter for C and > C++.

Re: Kernel for PowerPC (AppleMac)

2003-01-12 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Woody works great on powerpc Macintoshes. I'm typing this on an old 8500 - Woody has brought new life to a six year old computer, it's my main machine for browsing and email, and also serves as a masquerading gateway for my office lan. You will need more than just a kernel, you will also need a

Re: what can be done with broken packages

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
hiya, something quick to try is apt-get -f install if it looks like it might fix it, go for it! good luck sean On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:21:39AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hi > > I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken > packages on my debian powerpc

Re: Kernel for PowerPC (AppleMac)

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
unfortunately i'm neither a mac owner nor am i familiar with bootX. however, i think you can get some kernels + information/docs at: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.23-2002-05-21/powermac/ and poking around from there. however, i'm making the ignorant assumption th

Where is Cint?

2003-01-12 Thread Paul E Condon
A few weeks ago I "discovered" Cint, which is an interpreter for C and C++. I recall finding a Debian package of Cint, but I did not carefully note where I found it. Now I want to install and use Cint, but the Debian package seems to have disappeared from the Debian package list. Or maybe it wa

Re: problem setting up a local network

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
heya, this sounds like a job for iptables. you have to do more than having just routes added, since you need to be able to do some packet mangling to get the traffic back to A again after it goes out to the internet. if i understand correctly you have a network like < 192.168 lan (with a) > ===

What has happened to debian-cd

2003-01-12 Thread Paul E Condon
From late November until about the middle of December, I was able to download jigdo files and jigdo templates of testing from http://www.debian.org/debian-cd/testing/jigdo-area/i386 and from http://gluck.debian.org/debian-cd/testing/jigdo-area/i386 Starting in late December, both stopped working

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
a few ideas to try: - uncomment lba32 and comment out linear - check to make sure your kernel is at /vmlinuz and not /boot/vmlinuz - compare the differences between your floppie's lilo.conf (if it uses lilo) and that in /etc - in case you haven't run lilo from the cmdline after making each chang

mutt 1.5.3 test package

2003-01-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
http://www.bofh.it/~md/mutt/ Please test and let me know[1] if anything breaks. [1] By private mail, I'm not subscribed. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: corrupted directory, I can not clear !! help !!

2003-01-12 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:41:41PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > I have since moved debian to an 80GB drive hda. > I want hdb to be a single linux partition I can use to archive data. > > I used linux fdisk to remove all partitions on hdb, I then created one > partition on hdb, ie hdb1 taking up the

Re: upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:37, Dale Hair wrote: > I upgraded to gnome2 yesterday and the fonts look great, except now > galeon and mozilla no longer see any truetype fonts. I had nice anti > aliased truetype fonts before when I was running testing with galeon & > evolution, and dependencies from uns

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-12 Thread sean finney
ok then, in that case, i don't remember what script takes you through setting up your network, but the config is stored in /etc/network/interfaces, and you want the following two lines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and then it should Just Work. if you want this to be a system that works nicely

Re: Disable Anti-aliased fonts

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:57:23PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:40, Rob Weir wrote: > > > You want to edit /etx/X11/XftConfig and change the minimum AA font size, > > > or disable it completely. > > > > Not always true -- some progr

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-12 Thread Michael Wardle
> On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch > > thumbnail & possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' > > do this? I will explore all the functionality of Gimp at some point, > > but wanted to know

Re: what can be done with broken packages

2003-01-12 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:21:39AM +0100, Roland Wegmann wrote: > I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken > packages on my debian powerpc box (testing). > > cpp-2.95, perl, perl-base, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.10 > > What does a broken package mean? And how can I made a pa

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-12 Thread Ludwig
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 10:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch > thumbnail & possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' > do this? I will explore all the functionality of Gimp at some point, > but wanted to know of alterna

Re: WTF is popping up that frigging window?

2003-01-12 Thread Robert L. Harris
Thank you, this was it. Had to right click and click off the actions enabled. I'd gone through the configuration tool about 5 times and couldn't find anything related. Robert Thus spake Lloyd Zusman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Recently my ma

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:42:44AM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch > thumbnail & possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' > do this? I will explore all the functionality of Gimp at some point, > but wanted to kn

Re: Kernel help - ICH4 (82801DB) onboard sound

2003-01-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
On a sidenote, has anyone found a way to get DMA working with the ICH4 and a 2.4 kernel? Paul W sez: } I've now found that I may be able to get sound using a kernel 2.5.11 } or above (http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/audio.htm), is } there a specific version that anyone could recommend?

what can be done with broken packages

2003-01-12 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hi I installed aptitude and therefore find out that I have some broken packages on my debian powerpc box (testing). cpp-2.95, perl, perl-base, libstdc++2.10-glibc2.10 What does a broken package mean? And how can I made a package 'unbroken'? Kind regards, Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBS

corrupted directory, I can not clear !! help !!

2003-01-12 Thread Dave Selby
I had hdb partitioned as hdb1windows hdb2debian hdb3linux partition for archive I have since moved debian to an 80GB drive hda. I want hdb to be a single linux partition I can use to archive data. I used linux fdisk to remove all partitions on hdb, I then created one partition on hd

Re: What is Block-Major-114?

2003-01-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op zo 12-01-2003, om 23:09 schreef Colin Watson: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:11:48PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Op zo 12-01-2003, om 17:24 schreef Alan Chandler: > > > Just recently my sid system has started throwing out modprobe fails to load > > > block-major-114 messages during startu

Re: Kernel help - ICH4 (82801DB) onboard sound

2003-01-12 Thread David Z Maze
Paul W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've now found that I may be able to get sound using a kernel 2.5.11 > or above (http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/audio.htm), is > there a specific version that anyone could recommend? I'd stay far, far away from the 2.5.x kernel series; it's the dev

Re: What is Block-Major-114?

2003-01-12 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:09:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Op zo 12-01-2003, om 17:24 schreef Alan Chandler: > > > > > Trouble is block-major-114 is not in the > > > kernel/Documentation/devices.txt file. > > (I have no idea what block-major-114 is either.) Looks like it's possibly for at

Re: network print server

2003-01-12 Thread Roland Wegmann
Michael West wrote: I have been using samba as a print server at home, but I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this results in my wife not being able to print. To increase user satisfaction I am considering purchasing one of these dedicated print server

Re: What is Block-Major-114?

2003-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:11:48PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Op zo 12-01-2003, om 17:24 schreef Alan Chandler: > > Just recently my sid system has started throwing out modprobe fails to load > > block-major-114 messages during startup > > > > Trouble is block-major-114 is not in the kerne

Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-12 Thread Sven Bornemann
John Hasler wrote: Sven writes: I think somehow I must make the ISP server belief that I just logged on, while I'm online for one and a half our or so... Or just add the 'persist' option so that pppd dials up again whenever it gets disconnected. But then my Gnutella downloads are int

parted giving strange error message

2003-01-12 Thread John Covici
I have had a very strange problem using parted 1.6.4 under the sid release of Debian. I made a file system (logical partition 5) using mke2fs 1.32 and then made it an ext3 with tune2fs. I then put files in there via cp and later after the source was gone, I realized that I wanted to resize it to

Advansys ABP3922 -> "LSR safety check engaged"

2003-01-12 Thread Paul Winkler
I am running Debian testing, 2.4.17 kernel, with 2 ide cdroms (scsi emulation enabled), and a single ide hard drive. Everything works fine. Next, I plug in an Advansys ABP3922 (pci) scsi controller in order to use an external slide scanner. Support for scsi, plug and play, and the advansy

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, ernst wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > > >When you buy and register Opera, the ad-banner in the upper-right > > >corner of the Opera toolbar is removed. Additionally, Opera users > > >

Re: SOLVED: permissions on a mounted windows fat32 drive

2003-01-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op zo 12-01-2003, om 12:49 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Op zo 12-01-2003, om 03:25 schreef Benedict Verheyen: > > >> When i do groups benedict as benedict, it doesn't show me as member of > >> the group windows. When i issue the same command as root, it shows t

RE: apt-get pukes

2003-01-12 Thread Curtis Spencer
I am quoting this from David Raeker's answer to a same problem asked a few days ago. I hope it works for you. Add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf Apt::Cache-Limit 12582912; (Don't ask me why it works, but it worked for me.) Cheers, Curtis -Original Message- From: Art Edwards [mailt

Re: What is Block-Major-114?

2003-01-12 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op zo 12-01-2003, om 17:24 schreef Alan Chandler: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just recently my sid system has started throwing out modprobe fails to load > block-major-114 messages during startup > > Trouble is block-major-114 is not in the kernel/Documentation/devices.

Re: boot problems

2003-01-12 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
#lba32 linear boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map delay=20 prompt timeout=150 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old label=Linux-2.4.14 read-only optional # /etc/fstab: static file s

Kernel for PowerPC (AppleMac)

2003-01-12 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi,   Are there any PowerMac G3 Beige users out there with a Kernel (uncompressed) I can use with BootX?   I cannot find anything on the net at all, it seems it's not very well supported?   Thanks,   Kevin    

Re: Question for PPP Users

2003-01-12 Thread Wayne Topa
John Hasler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Pppconfig creates a resolv.conf file in /etc/ppp/resolv for each provider. > The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up script moves /etc/resolv.conf out of the way > and the appropriate file from /etc/ppp/resolv in when a ppp connection > comes up. /etc

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-12 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 09:25, Jan Trippler wrote: > On Son, 12 Jan 2003 at 14:34 (+0100), ernst wrote: > > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > > > One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? > > > > cat /etc/group |grep your_username > > Useless use of cat award ;-) > grep

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-12 Thread ernst
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > >When you buy and register Opera, the ad-banner in the upper-right > >corner of the Opera toolbar is removed. Additionally, Opera users > >have access to personal support team via e-mail. > >

Re: Very wierd behavior on new nodes

2003-01-12 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:19:46PM -0700, Art Edwards wrote: > I have taken you advice and installed memtest86. The machine seemed to > boot without incident (I believe memtest86 runs at system boot?) so > memory seems not ot be the problem. memtest86 boots _instead_ of the kernel. You should add

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-12 Thread ernst
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, bob parker wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:06, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:46:51PM +0100, ernst wrote: > > > www.opera.com/download > > > > > > you can get it for allmost every platform, fast, stable and a lot of > > > other stuff:) > > > > > > try

Re: cloning my debian install onto my new hard disk?

2003-01-12 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 8:20 pm, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used to use the cp -ax method with great success, but more > recently the -x option doesn't work. The following is copied from my > > bug report

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-12 Thread ernst
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 01:46:51PM +0100, ernst wrote: > > > www.opera.com/download > > > > you can get it for allmost every platform, fast, stable and a lot of > > other stuff:) > > > > try it, its free. > > Almost. It's actually adware: > That's

Kernel help - ICH4 (82801DB) onboard sound

2003-01-12 Thread Paul W
Thanks to all who helped earlier. I've now found that I may be able to get sound using a kernel 2.5.11 or above (http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/audio.htm), is there a specific version that anyone could recommend? Also I've only ever used kernel sources supplied with the distribution

Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-12 Thread John Hasler
Sven writes: > I think somehow I must make the ISP server belief that I just logged on, > while I'm online for one and a half our or so... Or just add the 'persist' option so that pppd dials up again whenever it gets disconnected. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Removed from lists due to email errors.

2003-01-12 Thread Xavian-Anderson Macpherson
"Your mail address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], has been removed from the following mailing lists, because it generated an exessive number of bounced mails:" Someone else mention the same thing to me before, but I have no idea what is causing it or how to fix it. I have no idea what I may have done to c

Re: Mounting USB devices

2003-01-12 Thread ernst
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Jan Trippler wrote: > On Son, 12 Jan 2003 at 14:34 (+0100), ernst wrote: > > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > > > One more dumb question...how do I know my user ID? > > > > cat /etc/group |grep your_username > > Useless use of cat award ;-) > grep your_use

apt-get pukes

2003-01-12 Thread Art Edwards
I'm running woody/testing/unstable and when I try to update or install, I get the following errors. theory:/home/edwards# apt-get update Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable

Re: Mysql download question

2003-01-12 Thread Andrew Ingram
Excellent, thanks for the information! Regards, Andrew On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:21, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:43:55PM -, Andrew Ingram wrote.. > > > Hi everyone. I'm a newbie to Debian (using it because I got a new job > > and we use it there). I'm really enj

Re: Very wierd behavior on new nodes

2003-01-12 Thread Art Edwards
This is a standalone box (now), so everything was compiled there. The only group of routines not compiledon the machine is ATLAS. I'll try using the native routines. Art On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:38:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:34, user list wrote: > > Under the 2.2 k

Re: 3c90x drive

2003-01-12 Thread Art Edwards
pci-scan is in the net portion of the installation. Look down the list of ethernet drivers and you should see it. I have been using it purely pragmatically as it was required from linksys and from some of the scyld drivers. Art On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:42:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue,

emacs and X

2003-01-12 Thread Bruce Park
Hello debian users, I'm reposting this problem again in hope that someone can help me out. I really need to solve this since it's a real annoying bug. When I use emacs(emacs20-7), the window and the fonts are distorted at times. After running some tests, I have figured out that this will occur

Re: Very wierd behavior on new nodes

2003-01-12 Thread Art Edwards
I have taken you advice and installed memtest86. The machine seemed to boot without incident (I believe memtest86 runs at system boot?) so memory seems not ot be the problem. I have tried to run the same job again and it got much further and then crashed. Out of curiosity, a colleague loaded RH 8

Re: cloning my debian install onto my new hard disk?

2003-01-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a few important steps. I did this on my little server and it > worked just the way it should. Read > > http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html > > and follow the instructions there. It's very straight-forward and not > too difficult. Ta

Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-12 Thread Sven Bornemann
Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 06:08:29PM +0100, Sven Bornemann wrote: Sorry, I found out that it is the ISP cutting off the ppp connection after two hours. But Gentoo could overcome this somehow. Any ideas how this is done? Maybe they idle you out after two hours? You could a

RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish

2003-01-12 Thread Adam
(I forgot to include the text version, how embarassing.) I have written an introduction to configuring sawfish, called "How To Make Sawfish Do Nothing". The official version is and will be at http://www.ideogram.com/do-nothing/sawfish.html A text version is included below for your convenience. T

logrotate oversight (amusing)

2003-01-12 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Samba is configured to log stuff for each host in a uniquely named file. Many months ago I decided that logrotate should rotate those logs as well as the default log.[sn]mbd files. Seems simple, right? I configured basically logrotate like this : /var/log/samba/samba-log.* { weekly r

upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Dale Hair
I upgraded to gnome2 yesterday and the fonts look great, except now galeon and mozilla no longer see any truetype fonts. I had nice anti aliased truetype fonts before when I was running testing with galeon & evolution, and dependencies from unstable. I installed gnome, gnome-control-center, etc.

Re: Mysql download question

2003-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:43:55PM -, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Hi everyone. I'm a newbie to Debian (using it because I got a new job > and we use it there). I'm really enjoying using it and it has been very > stable and good to work with for me. > > What I would like to know is whether I can ge

Re: hdparm permanence

2003-01-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"James" == James William Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: James> http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/rhl71dma/ (redhat James> dma problem) James> there it says to permanently disable DMA for a particular James> drive by adding the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysini

Problem starting x

2003-01-12 Thread Alex
I've got a banshee card compiled into the kernel, a logitech mousewheel and a standard swedish keyboard. I've run xf86configure, are there any more tools to help us mortals get x running? :) HERE IS WHERE THE PROBLEMS SHOW: (II) TDFX: Driver for 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 chipsets: 3dfx Banshee,

RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish

2003-01-12 Thread Adam
I have written an introduction to configuring sawfish, called "How To Make Sawfish Do Nothing". The official version is and will be at http://www.ideogram.com/do-nothing/sawfish.html A text version is included below for your convenience. The target audience is the novice Linux user who may not e

Re: Mysql download question

2003-01-12 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:43:55PM -, Andrew Ingram wrote.. > Hi everyone. I'm a newbie to Debian (using it because I got a new job > and we use it there). I'm really enjoying using it and it has been very > stable and good to work with for me. > > What I would like to know is whether

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-12 Thread iain d broadfoot
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > also sprach iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.11.2115 +0100]: > >Squid is a FTP, HTTP and HTTPS proxy cache. For general > >information on > > "marketing" > > you can't proxy HTTPS, think about it. squid can tunnel it, bu

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-12 Thread Jeff
martin f krafft, 2003-Jan-12 19:27 +0100: > also sprach iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.11.2115 +0100]: > >Squid is a FTP, HTTP and HTTPS proxy cache. For general > >information on > > "marketing" > > you can't proxy HTTPS, think about it. squid can tunnel it, but t

Re: network print server

2003-01-12 Thread Michael West
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:00:41PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > a print server should never go down ... if not being able to print > at any time is not acceptable, then > - put the printer on the gw or the mail server... > ( a machine that presumably doesn't go down ) > because if th

Mysql download question

2003-01-12 Thread Andrew Ingram
Title: Message Hi everyone. I'm a newbie to Debian (using it because I got a new job and we use it there). I'm really enjoying using it and it has been very stable and good to work with for me.   What I would like to know is whether I can get MySQL as an "apt" package, and if so, what lines

hdparm permanence

2003-01-12 Thread James William Morris
One of my ide hard drives has been producing dma time out errors. I emailed the compaq support team about this (among other things) and they pointed me to http://www.exocore.com/technologies/linux/rhl71dma/ (redhat dma problem) there it says to permanently disable DMA for a particular drive b

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-12 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.11.2115 +0100]: >Squid is a FTP, HTTP and HTTPS proxy cache. For general >information on "marketing" you can't proxy HTTPS, think about it. squid can tunnel it, but that's not more than an circuit level gateway. > i know

Re: Disable Anti-aliased fonts

2003-01-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:57:23PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:40, Rob Weir wrote: > > You want to edit /etx/X11/XftConfig and change the minimum AA font size, > > or disable it completely. > > Not always true -- some programs are now using Xft2, which uses > /etc/fonts/fo

Re: php 4.3.0 for shell scripting and compiling from source

2003-01-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:55:37PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hello, > > i'm used to work with php for creating dynamic webpages. > I want to try to make shell scripts with it too and the 4.3.0 > version is able to do this. I know php already a bit and I'm fairly sure that PHP has been abl

Re: WTF is popping up that frigging window?

2003-01-12 Thread Lloyd Zusman
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently my machine started popping up a window that I don't remember > telling it to do. When I select a URL in my konqueror or mozilla windows > this pops up asking how I want to open the URL. When I double click a > URL in an Eterm it does t

Proftpd Configuration

2003-01-12 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello, After an hardware-upgrade I formatted my debian-server and installed it again. I forgot to backup some configuration files. Not a problem, almost everything is running fine again but proftpd not yet. I've searched google about it but in can't find the way it was. Wich lines are needed in t

Re: ls colors oddity

2003-01-12 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:17AM +0800, csj wrote: > On my system the colors printed by a simple "ls" (actually an > alias for "ls --color=auto") differ from the colors when the > command is qualified by a file name or wildcard, say, "ls -d *" > or "ls configure". > > With either "ls -d *" or "l

Re: WTF is popping up that frigging window?

2003-01-12 Thread Joshua Lee
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:35:54AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Recently my machine started popping up a window that I don't remember > telling it to do. When I select a URL in my konqueror or mozilla windows > this pops up asking how I want to open the URL. When I double click a > URL in

Re: host for an apt repository

2003-01-12 Thread Brian Nelson
"Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > >> I'm interested for packaging some software for debian. Any one know >> about a free host to make my own apt repository ? "can't afford paying >> for a web space :(" I could give

Re: sourceforge - why it depends on exim and proftp?

2003-01-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:29:12AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > does sourceforge really need to depend on exim and proftp? wouldn't > other mail resp. ftp servers be enough? Isn't that broken? Shouldn't the dependency be: Depends: exim | mail-transport-agent like most sensible packages do? -

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-12 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:54:57AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > So if you don't start up X with the +xinerama startx option then it's just > two displays? Correct. Then your window manager needs to be smart enough to either support both screens (blackbox/openbox/fluxbox/waimea, pwm/ion, larswm),

Re: ls colors oddity

2003-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:17AM +0800, csj wrote: > On my system the colors printed by a simple "ls" (actually an > alias for "ls --color=auto") differ from the colors when the > command is qualified by a file name or wildcard, say, "ls -d *" > or "ls configure". > > With either "ls -d *" or "l

Re: ls colors oddity

2003-01-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:08:17 +0800, csj wrote: > On my system the colors printed by a simple "ls" (actually an > alias for "ls --color=auto") differ from the colors when the > command is qualified by a file name or wildcard, say, "ls -d *" > or "ls configure". > > With either "ls -d *" or "ls

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:57:04 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > If you want a particular version not to be installed, then give it a > Pin lower than 100 and it will never be installed if there is another > installable version in your sources. This is what the manual says, but this doesn't work. I

Re: Offboard hdd controller.

2003-01-12 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Hi Folk. > I want to use offboard hdd controller and set up cdrom on it. > (Sorry, ide hard disk controler on isa slot.) > How can I do this? > Thanx. For me it worked out of the box, probably because I have a SCSI host adapter which doesn't consume irq 14 and 15 for my other discs. If thi

Re: Security concerns on stable/unstable

2003-01-12 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Thanks everybody for the help. Now it is clearer for me! Cheers, Bruno. On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:49, nate wrote: > Bruno Diniz de Paula said: > > > the unstable version. This would mean that, in terms of solved bugs in the > > *sofware* that could cause a security flaw, both woody and sid are ex

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